{"id":98,"date":"2020-06-03T21:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T01:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/?p=98"},"modified":"2020-06-03T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T01:12:48","slug":"3-summer-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/2020\/06\/03\/3-summer-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"#3 summer summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have found it hard to concentrate. What book should I choose to read? Do I skim or linger? How much of the newspaper can I survive?&nbsp; How many minutes can I spend on social media? A colleague asked today when will Instagram go back to flower images? That question pushed me to ask what do flowers symbolize, say, or do? Could they be a weapon, a conversation, an answer, a question?&nbsp; Could flowers be a moment of pause, clarity, or memory?<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/03-summer-2020-1024x810.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/03-summer-2020-1024x810.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/03-summer-2020-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/03-summer-2020-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catherinewhite.com\/roughideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/03-summer-2020.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My Poems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my poems are fed up &amp; getting violent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i whisper to them tender tender bridge bridge but they say bitch ain\u2019t no time, make me a weapon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i hold a poem to a judge\u2019s neck until he\u2019s not a judge anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i tuck a poem next to my dick, sneak it on the plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a poem goes off in the capitol, i raise a glass in unison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i mail a poem to 3\/4ths of the senate, they choke off the scent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my mentor said once a poem can be whatever you want it to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">so i bury the poem in the river &amp; the body in the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i poem a nazi i went to college with in the jaw until his face hangs a bone tambourine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i poem ten police a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i poem the mayor with my bare hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i poem the hands off the men who did what they know they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i poem a racist woman into a whistle &amp; feel only a little bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i poem the president on live TV, his head raised above my head, i say Baldwin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i call my loves &amp; ask for their lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i poem them all. i poem them all with a grin, bitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">poemed in the chair, handless, volts ready to run me, when they ask me what i regret<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i poem multitudes multitudes multitudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Danez Smith (2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have found it hard to concentrate. What book should I choose to read? Do I skim or linger? How much of the newspaper can I survive?&nbsp; How many minutes can I spend on social media? A colleague asked today when will Instagram go back to flower images? 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